53 preliminary proceedings. The judicial investigation is exclusively for aggravated murder, based on Articles 106 and 108 subparagraph 4 of the Criminal Code of Peru, and the aggrieved parties will be the next of kin of the victims of said homicides. Regarding the survivors and the wounded the mentioned Court is not hearing their cases, since in Peru the monopoly of criminal actions belongs to the Public Prosecutors’ Office. The prosecutor must denounce before the judge, and the latter can not motu propio start said action. It is possible that once in the prosecution stage of a case sit be determined that some information must be completed, case in which it will be forwarded once again to the Prosecutor, so it may “complete it”. In the case of the Criminal Center Castro Castro “the information has been transferred to the [competent] prosecutor” so it may give its opinion regarding two aspects: the first is that on the record and in the investigation it is said that many people were injured, and that other acts have breached different juridical rights and they not only resulted in deaths; and the second is that the civil part requested the appearance of the former President Fujimori in the process. The ruling regarding the responsibility of the former President Alberto Fujimori corresponded to the Nation’s Public Prosecutors’ Office due to the immunity he had in his quality of President. Being the case in said Public Prosecutors’ Office the immunity period of Mr. Fujimori expires, reason for which the Nation’s Public Prosecutors’ Office forwarded the actions to the Supraprovincial Prosecutor, where said ruling is pending. The process is in its preliminary stage “with 95% of [the] actions requested by the Prosecutors’ Office” finished, among which are the statements of 12 defendants and 106 statements between police officers and inmates, among which are the statements of Vladimiro Montesinos and of members of the Colina Group. 15 confrontation actions between defendants, and between the latter and witnesses have been carried out, in order to clarify some matters under investigation. Two proceedings of preventive statements by relatives, who are the only ones who have appeared in the civil part, have been carried out. Investigations are being carried out to find out the names and addresses of the next of kin of the fatal victims. In the process the investigations and statements performed by the Commission for Truth have been taken into consideration, but many of them have had to be “specified by the Public Prosecutors’ Office in order to have greater legitimacy.” Proceedings of expert ratification have been carried out by 8 legal doctors who enacted the protocols for the autopsies of the dead inmates and by 8 ballistic experts who enacted the expert reports on forensic ballistics practiced on the dead inmates. In these proceedings of expert ratification they were asked questions seeking to clarify the content of the mentioned protocols and reports “that already existed but […] were incomplete,” in order to determine: the external location of the wounds; the possible cause and way of production; the trajectory and distance of the bullets fired; the trajectory and entrance and exit wounds in the dead bodies; and the direct cause of death. In the preliminary proceedings, exhumations have not been performed, since they were previously done and the fatal victims identified through the investigations have been handed over to their next of kin. No pending exhumation is on record. On April 21, 2006 a proceeding of judicial investigation was carried out in the Criminal Center Castro Castro, in presence of the accused, of inmates as witnesses, and of the doctors and experts, “who would issue a comprehensive report and a technical